As 32 Western countries jointly singled out China’s global threat to democracy and a rules-based international order at the NATO Summit in Madrid last week, President Xi Jinping was on the other side of the world cementing Beijing’s absolute control over Hong Kong.
There was no mistaking the symbolic importance of Mr Xi’s first trip outside of mainland China since the pandemic to attend the swearing in of Hong Kong’s new chief executive John Lee.
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